Fediverse Bookmarks

Discussion about how trying to pretend that JSON-LD is JSON, like in Activity Streams 2.0 and ActivityPub, leads to many problems.

"[The SWF] even goes as far as wringing out the Fediverse’s own historical context as a multiprotocol polyglot network, by equating the Fediverse to just the ActivityPub protocol. Hey, look everybody, it’s Evan, the bold creator of The Social Web / Fediverse, with his one protocol that powers the entire thing!"

"The short version of this is that I believe that Mastodon — more specifically federation and decentralization won't work out."

“SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published (broadcast) using the ActivityPub protocols and can be subscribed to from any client that supports those standards”

Provide definitions of "Fediverse" and "Instance".

JSON Schema definitions for Fediverse protocols and specifications. Includes schema for ActivityStreams 2, ActivityPub, Mastodon and JRD (Webfinger, nodeinfo)

Explainer from Popular Science magazine.

Proposals for new features to improve the Fediverse.

There are a number of issues with the decentralized nature of the Fediverse. One of them is that we are not seeing replies from people we do not follow.

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.